Oscars for 2002

Here are my early guesses based on things that I've read on the Internet:

Picture: Catch Me If You Can

Director: Steven Spielberg, Catch Me If You Can

Foreign Film: Huit Femmes (Eight Women)

Animated Feature: Spirited Away

Actor: Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt

Actress: Nicole Kidman, The Hours

Supporting Actor: Tom Hanks, Catch Me If You Can

Supporting Actress: Catherine Zeta Jones, Chicago

Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation

Adapted Screenplay: Jeff Nathanson, Catch Me If You Can

Cinematography: Conrad Hall, Road to Perdition

Editing: Michael Kahn, Minority Report

Score: John Williams, Catch Me If You Can

Song: Madonna, Die Another Day, Die Another Day

Costumes: Chicago

Art Direction/Set Decoration: Chicago

Makeup: Men in Black II

Sound: Minority Report

Sound Editing: Minority Report

Visual Effects: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Please, before you start flaming me, bear in mind that I'm making predictions of what will win, not what should or deserves to win. [:)]

Eddie Feng
Associate Review Editor
www.DVDTown.com

Ehm i am telling you right now, if Road to Perdition does not win, or at least get nominated for best picture, then I am never watching the oscars again ;) (like anyone cares).

Best picture: Road to perdition (or Signs)
Best actor: Tom Hanks, Road to perdition
Best supporting actor: Paul Newman, Road to perdition
Best screenplay: Road to perdition
Best cinematography: Road to perdition
Best direction: Sam Mendes, Road to perdition (or M. Night Shaymalan for Signs)

Yeah, but, Per, you just like it because it has your name in the title.

John P.

Damn! I didn't think anyone would notice :P But I guess a teacher notices that sort of thing ;)

Seriously though, I do think Road to PERdition is (well along with Signs) my favorite movie of 2002.

I liked both ROAD and SIGNS (Road signs?), but I wouldn't rule out MINORITY REPORT or LOTR: THE TWO TOWERS. And I liked Eddie's predictions, too. The Oscars are always a coin toss, at best.

John

Ooops! Apologies for mistaking Spirited Away with Disney's Spirit: Stallion of the whatever.....[:)] lol

Oh another mistake. Forgot about Saving Private Ryan. This is what you get for replying and eating at the same time! LOL

I agree with the Judi Dench assessment. She just plays the same angry old woman in every movie. She does a great job playing an angry old woman, but there's little variety from one movie to the next.

Why didn't you like Spirited Away? You're not a Hayao Miyazaki or anime fan? It probably got the best reviews of the year of any kind of film, animated or not.

Monsters, Inc. WAS nominated for Best Animated Feature--and it lost to Shrek this past March. [:)]

By the way, another Oscar would be the 3rd for Spielberg, who won 2 for Schindler's List and 1 for Saving Private Ryan. He also received the Thalberg Award for general excellence in producing.

henning, jesper, and michael liked it. [:)]

Personally I do not see Minority Report wining anything but f/x-Oscars. Everyone I know that saw it was very dissapointed.

I always think ahea
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John